Review remote changes offline in Mercurial

If you want to review remote changes from Mercurial offline you cannot use hg incoming. For sure there is a nice way to do it. So here is what I do to get changes from a repository to review them later without pulling them into my repo before reviewing. It also has the advantage that you can review changesets that include a given file. This is not possible with hg incoming.

The -R incoming.bundle option tells Mercurial to use the bundle as an overlay for the current repository. The –no-merges option tells Mercurial to not display merges (which I usually use for reviewing patches) and the -p option is there to display the applied patches in the output. I use — hgext/bookmarks.py to display only changesets related to the bookmark extension.